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- catalog abstract ""In order to grasp what it means to call Rousseau an "author" of the Revolution, as so many revolutionaries did, it is necessary to take full measure of the difficulties of literary interpretation to which Rousseau's work gives rise, particularly around such a charged term as "author."" "On Jean-Jacques Rousseau shows that Rousseau's texts consistently generate a division in their own reading, a division both designated and masked by the fiction of authorship. These divisions can occur successively - as in the narrative reversals and discontinuities characteristic of Rousseau's fictional and autobiographical works - or simultaneously, in the form of incompatible attempts to apply the lessons of a single text to an urgent historical moment. Given the structure of these texts, their "influence" can only occur in an equally paradoxical form. Rousseau's contribution to revolutionary thinking lies in his conceptualization of the constitutive function of misunderstanding and narrative discontinuity, in history and political action as well as in literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11319896.
- catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In order to grasp what it means to call Rousseau an "author" of the Revolution, as so many revolutionaries did, it is necessary to take full measure of the difficulties of literary interpretation to which Rousseau's work gives rise, particularly around such a charged term as "author."" "On Jean-Jacques Rousseau shows that Rousseau's texts consistently generate a division in their own reading, a division both designated and masked by the fiction of authorship. These divisions can occur successively - as in the narrative reversals and discontinuities characteristic of Rousseau's fictional and autobiographical works - or simultaneously, in the form of incompatible attempts to apply the lessons of a single text to an urgent historical moment. Given the structure of these texts, their "influence" can only occur in an equally paradoxical form. Rousseau's contribution to revolutionary thinking lies in his conceptualization of the constitutive function of misunderstanding and narrative discontinuity, in history and political action as well as in literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-313) and index.".
- catalog description "Intellectual, Cultural, and Ideological Origins -- History of Enlightenment and Enlightenment History -- Counting Books and Reading Texts -- Theory and Practice of the Public Sphere -- The Unnatural Order of Enlightenment Universal History -- The Debate on the Arts and Sciences -- Scottish Gradualism and French Impatience -- The Problem of Historical Causality in the Discours sur l'inegalite -- The Author of Nature -- Autobiography and Authorship -- La Nouvelle Heloise -- The Author of the Revolution -- Du contrat social and Its Vicissitudes -- Incomplete Readings -- The Two Readings in Practice -- A Revolutionary Mode of Authorship.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 320 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0804735557 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0804738645 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Atopia (Stanford, Calif.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Atopia".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Literature and the revolution.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "944.04 21".
- catalog subject "DC138 .S94 2000".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature France History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 Political and social views.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Intellectual, Cultural, and Ideological Origins -- History of Enlightenment and Enlightenment History -- Counting Books and Reading Texts -- Theory and Practice of the Public Sphere -- The Unnatural Order of Enlightenment Universal History -- The Debate on the Arts and Sciences -- Scottish Gradualism and French Impatience -- The Problem of Historical Causality in the Discours sur l'inegalite -- The Author of Nature -- Autobiography and Authorship -- La Nouvelle Heloise -- The Author of the Revolution -- Du contrat social and Its Vicissitudes -- Incomplete Readings -- The Two Readings in Practice -- A Revolutionary Mode of Authorship.".
- catalog title "On Jean-Jacques Rousseau : considered as one of the first authors of the Revolution / James Swenson.".
- catalog type "text".